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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:39:02 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Closing down the wireless trees for a summer break?
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On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 05:22:47PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Me and Johannes are planning to take a longer break from upstream this
> summer. To keep things simple my suggestion is that we would official
> close wireless and wireless-next trees from June 23rd to August 14th
> (approximately).
> 
> During that time urgent fixes would need go directly to the net tree.
> Patches can keep flowing to the wireless list but the the net
> maintainers will follow the list and they'll just apply them to the
> net tree directly.
> 
> The plan here is that -next patches would have to wait for
> wireless-next to open. Luckily the merge window for v6.6 most likely
> opens beginning of September[1] so after our break we would have few
> weeks to get -next patches ready for v6.6.
> 
> And the v6.5 -next patches should be ready by Monday June 19th so that we
> have enough time to get them into the tree before we close the trees.
> 
> What do people think, would this work? This is the first time we are
> doing this so we would like to hear any comments about this, both
> negative and positive. You can also reply to me and Johannes privately,
> if that's easier.

Sounds reasonable to me, have a nice vacation!

greg k-h